Exxxxaaaactly Laura! We spent part of the day at HQ, then met Sheila for lunch and they went off and played for the afternoon. I came home around five and we loaded up the John Deere and headed to Sonic for dinner. She's now snoozing soundly in her tent.

Zim and Jay...............I mean what is left to say? Preparation meeting opportunity boys, just wish I was there to see the grins on your faces.

JWilsonphoto wrote:
Zim and Jay...............I mean what is left to say? Preparation meeting opportunity boys, just wish I was there to see the grins on your faces.

Thanks, Shooter! Lots of grins on lots of faces that morning; and you should have seen the newbies returning from their first-ever A2A. In the case of one of the participants, it was his first flight in a small plane as well as his first-ever air-to-air shoot.

Jay and I were together on all three sorties; we make a good team. But as I said at the time,"The only bad thing about this weekend is that everything I got, Beckman has, too!"

Something for the brain trust. I thought I was getting ahead of the game by buying Hitachi 6TB drives every couple of months, but it seems that no docks will read them. Drobo is taking their sweet time deciding if they are going to support 6TB drives anytime soon. I think I might have outsmarted myself

I had the opportunity to do a little A2A yesterday on the way to Lancaster, TX...bumping around in the back of the CAF B-24A with a 50-500 lens is not the way to get very many good shots...but this one of the CAF A-26 seems to work!
(Plus it was a hell of a good time! )

I'm not exactly sure why, but the DC-10/MD-11 is one of my all-time favorite big girls. FedEx provides several daily visits to PHX. Add a little late afternoon monsoon fun for a backdrop, and I'm generally happy shooting aluminum tubes

Now I understand all the talk of file sizes on the D810. This thing gobbles up 32GB cards like there's no tomorrow! I think it may just be worth it though. One of the solos had to jump in the spare aircraft in Cleveland today.